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Re: Simple phone with gMail address book

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Gordon Levi wrote:

> It does need a USB data connection to my computer and a supplied
> computer program that allows updates to the phone's contacts. 
> 
> Ideally the phone would update its address book from my gMail account
> when it was plugged in to my computer via USB but that does not need
> to be automatic. I don't mind exporting the gMail address book and
> reformatting it to suit the Windows software supplied with the phone.

USB was not mentioned when I replied and I did not consider it as a
transfer medium.  I wasn't aware you wanted to sync only when you were
at home.  I was thinking about doing a sync anytime anywhere.  In
another subthread, you said "many old phones used that port to transfer
data"  Often you didn't find out if the vendor disabled the USB port
(for data transfer) until after you bought the phone.

Verizon provides a backup service between the phone and their service.
You can then export the contacts from your Verizon account to a CSV file
to import them into Gmail (or any e-mail service or e-mail client that
supports import from a .csv file).  Alas, they don't mention if the
reverse procedure is possible: to import a CSV file into the *phone*.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT14DGN42WY

At timemark 0:40, the sync options look to allow export and import of
contact data out of and into the non-smart Samsung phone.  There is no
audio instructions.  It looks like the export sync from the phone is
sent to phonecopy.com (so you need an account there).  Then you sync
some other device to your phonecopy account.  Because you wouldn't have
a smartphone to run their sync app, you would need to find a dumb phone
that includes a sync-to-server feature.  Since I saw nothing about USB
in the video, the sync will eat up your cellular data minutes to connect
to their sync server.

http://lifehacker.com/400440/back-up-and-sync-your-cell-phone-with-bitpim
(an 8-year old article but mentioned that USB sync was available)

At http://bitpim.org/help/, their Phones section lists the phones they
know works with their software.  I did not bother reviewing every phone
they list to see which are flip phones (which would necessitate a tiny
display) and which are bar phones (which can have larger screens).

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Simple phone with gMail address book Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-10-01 16:36 +1000
  Re: Simple phone with gMail address book "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 07:30 +0000
    Re: Simple phone with gMail address book Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-10-01 09:23 +0100
      Re: Simple phone with gMail address book "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 08:57 +0000
    Re: Simple phone with gMail address book Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-10-01 20:24 +1000
      Re: Simple phone with gMail address book "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 12:35 +0000
  Re: Simple phone with gMail address book Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2016-10-01 12:47 +0100
    Re: Simple phone with gMail address book Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-10-02 01:46 +1000
  Re: Simple phone with gMail address book VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-01 12:52 -0500
    Re: Simple phone with gMail address book Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-10-02 15:55 +1100
      Re: Simple phone with gMail address book VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-02 02:18 -0500
      Re: Simple phone with gMail address book Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-10-02 17:57 +0000

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